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he could enter into a career in poetry in 2014.
Within a year, he is already publishing his
first poetiy collection, "A Song of a Dandelion'
s Seed." I know that he had been writing even
before his debut, and further, it is admirable
that he has overcome many difficulties in a life
of mission and has found joy and meaning in
praising God, His beauty and His glory.
I am confident that these poems demonstrate
the height of Mark Hong s focus on godliness
as he compares the tenaciousness of life to the
life of Christian diasporas and the beauty of
dandelions to the attractiveness of Jesus life
in Christians. Such focusing power is called
"poetic thought." It is a thought pattern based
on the intuition of faith and unrestricted free
imagination. This ability is a prominent
feature in Mark Hong s poems.
Poet Hong s poems of faith were written
with "a pure sensibility" and have rapport with
the world of belief. His faith is an intrinsic
mind that wells up from the fountain of God's
immeasurable grace. His poems will thus
affect many kinds of people, especially lonely